conan but winery

Chapter 439 Dirty Treasure

"My goodness……"

After entering the secret door, everyone walked down the dark and damp stairs for a short distance, and their eyes suddenly opened up.

Unlike ordinary islands, there is a huge naturally formed cavity underneath this isolated island villa.

The cavity is very large, with a height of at least tens of meters. There is a man-made spiral channel on the surrounding rock walls. At the bottom is water of unknown depth, and floating on it is a seemingly 20-meter-long vessel. The small cargo ship looked rusty, as if it had been parked here for many years.

On the stone wall a few meters high directly in front of the small cargo ship, there is a gate that has also been manually dug out, with a height and width that is just right for the small cargo ship to pass through.

It seems that in order to prevent the seawater from outside from flowing back in, a gate was specially built at this gate to block the seawater from outside.

"That ship! Is that the ship?!"

Walking on the stone wall passage, the eldest young master Takahiro Tone looked at the small cargo ship parked below, and he was extremely excited.

Everyone could clearly see from the angle at this time that there were several wooden boxes piled on the deck of the small ship, some of which had been opened. Just like the plot that often appears in stories, these opened boxes were piled with wooden boxes. Filled with all kinds of gold and silver jewelry, it looked very dazzling in this dimly lit underground cave.

"Yes, what's on that ship is the batch of 'Heritage of the British Empire' that Eijiro Tone received from Singapore."

Kevin nodded, walked at the front, and explained to the people behind him:

"More than 100 years ago, a batch of treasures that Queen Victoria had plundered from various colonies of the British Empire were en route to the British mainland via Singapore. They were attacked by pirates disguised as private navy sent by the then Governor of Singapore. All the ships sank. The treasure on board was hidden by the Governor of Singapore.

Although Queen Victoria did not suspect him afterwards, shortly afterwards, the greedy Governor of Singapore was very unlucky to be killed on a hunting trip. With his death, the treasures disappeared. .

It was not until 20 years ago that the pseudo-leader who was supported during the war found their whereabouts again. Of course, Singaporeans all know that after the war, the pseudo-leader was quickly arrested by the Singaporean authorities at the time. and executed.

As for Eijiro Tone, a Japanese man who had settled in Singapore for decades at that time, he had actually maintained a very good relationship with the pseudo-leader.

During the war, Eijiro Tone may have heard information about these treasures from this person. After the war, he even used his influence in the European literary world to agree to call on literary people for this purpose. On the grounds of seeking a reduced sentence, he successfully extracted the whereabouts of the treasures from the pseudo-leader.

Of course, I think everyone should know the outcome of this incident. Eijiro Tone broke his promise. After the pseudo-leader was executed, he became the only person in the world who knew the whereabouts of the treasure.

After that, Eijiro Tone repeated his old tricks and successively used the then police chief Yang Douxin and Clyde, one of the leaders of the post-war reconstruction plan. After deceiving the two people to help him obtain the treasure, he took it with him alone. These treasures went to England and remained anonymous ever since...

Ah, I almost forgot to mention that the Governor of Singapore who originally robbed these treasures ultimately chose to temporarily bury these treasures on the land of Singapore, hoping to dig them out after the incident was over.

In order to cover up this behavior, he even built a luxurious annex where the treasure was buried. As for this annex..."

"Is it the house our family bought in Singapore?" Kazuhiko Kitakami asked in surprise when he heard this.

"You're so smart, university teacher."

Kevin looked back at him, smiled and nodded.

"That's right, so in order to monopolize this treasure, Tone Eijiro tried his best to finally force your Kitakami family to ruin, and finally gave up the house obediently.

I don’t know if it was because he did these things 15 years ago that he became more and more uneasy in his later years. Before he died, he decided to kill you, his partners Yang Douxin and Clyde who were deceived by him at the beginning. They all came to this island and wanted to divide these treasures equally among you...

Hahaha!what is this?Are you 15 years late for your share of the spoils? "Where did you get this information?" "After hearing what he said, Mei Ling frowned and looked at him and asked.

Kevin straightened his scratched collar and said, "My father once served as a guard next to the pseudo-leader, and he learned some information about these treasures.

So whether it’s out of my personal curiosity or my duty as a reporter, I really want to dig out the whereabouts of these legendary treasures..."

"That thing on the ship! Have you already touched it?!"

Suddenly, Takahiro Tone, the eldest young man who was running in front, turned his head sharply and stared at Kevin fiercely.

He looked as if he was the one who should inherit the inheritance.

"Huh? Don't worry, young master, I just enjoy the satisfaction of finding these treasures, but I am not actually interested in money.

Therefore, I didn’t take any of the things on the ship, I just opened them and looked at them a few times. If you don’t believe me, Master Guiyang can come and search me. "

As he spoke, Kevin also spread his hands.

"Hmph! You'd better tell the truth!"

After leaving these words, Takahiro Tone turned around and ran down quickly. He couldn't wait to see his father's "legacy".

"elder brother!"

Behind him, everyone slowly followed.

It seems that there was no platform built below this cavity to stand on. The passage spiraled downward along the surrounding stone walls and was eventually submerged in the water.

Seeing that there was no way, the eager Takahiro Tone jumped into the water and swam towards the small cargo ship parked a few meters away.

"Ah, actually when I came down, there was a platform below."

At this time, Kevin spoke again.

"It's just that the water above the annex was put down by you before, causing the water level inside to rise and flooding the platform.

By the way, the treasures on the ship are not just the ones you just saw. There are only a few on the deck, and more are stored in the cabin..."

"Treasure! These are father's treasures!"

While he was talking, Takahiro Tone climbed onto the ship with difficulty and rushed towards the wooden boxes filled with gold, silver and jewelry on the deck.

"elder brother!"

Behind him, Tone Kosuke reluctantly jumped into the water and swam aboard.

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